Page 104 of The Villain

“Athena…”

“On your knees.”

I drank in the sight of his perfectly carved and scarred body lower to the ground, one knee and then the other, his cock bobbing heavily in front of him.

“My imagination is killing me,” he confessed hoarsely, his chin tipped up like a beggar pleading for sight.

I bent forward and sealed my lips to his, his reaction instantaneous. His mouth wanted to level the playing field—wanted to put me at his mercy. He licked and stroked,tangled his tongue with mine in a dance I couldn’t quit. I felt his hand find the side of my calf and start to slide higher.

“Darius…” I pulled back.

Hunger was etched across his features. The crease of his mouth. The thump of his pulse.

“I need you,” he rasped.

I shivered and straightened, needing him too. But there, my plan faltered. Seeing the strain on his face and those full lips so close to my chest…

“Open your mouth,” I instructed, the huskiness of my voice making it both unrecognizable and utterly honest.

His torturous lips peeled apart, aching for whatever morsel I was willing to feed him.

I cupped my own breast and inched forward, presenting his waiting mouth with the hard, aching peak of my nipple. Time tiptoed forward and then stopped for a split second at the moment he sensed there was something for him to taste. He couldn’t see, couldn’t feel, but there was a flicker—a twitch over the muscles of his brow.

His lips latched down with hard pressure, making me gasp as an instant bolt of heat shot between my thighs.

“Darius,” I moaned, my hand sliding to his cheek—his head—and clutching him to me as he devoured my nipple with boundless hunger.

I arched my back, my head tipping toward the star-studded sky and felt closer to heaven than I’d ever imagined. He made me feel safe. Wanted. Powerful and protected. And loved. In spite of everything we’d gone through—everything that had kept us apart—there was no one I’d ever felt as close to.

Dare groaned into my skin, the flick of his tongue and the pull of his lips sending my mind into a tangle of sensations, each stronger than the last until I swore my legs were going to give out. Until I couldn’t think—couldn’t breathe—couldn’t…

“Darius.” My loud gasp pierced the still night air as his fingers slid between my thighs, and his deep groan made the trees shiver.

“I need you,” he rumbled, biting gently on my nipple as his thumb worked over my clit.

I couldn’t recover from the wave of pleasure fast enough before he doused me with another. Two fingers sinking deep inside my sex and curling into that spot that would have me collapse.

I’d never felt vulnerable with a man before. Never trusted so implicitly. So unwaveringly. Never loved so wholly as I did this man.

“So, fucking warm and soft and wet.” His heavy breaths tortured my sensitive flesh in the space between the strokes of his tongue. “I want to live inside you.”

Oh god.

“Every day, I want to put some part of me inside you.” His fingers moved in painfully and pleasurably slow strokes, reeling me closer and closer to the peak of release. “Every day.”

“Darius…”This wasn’t how this was supposed to go. I was supposed to be guiding him, and instead, I was clutched to the blindfolded man on his knees, whose mouth and fingers were my undoing.

“Every day until one day…” He trailed off, biting down on my nipple as he curled his fingers into my front wall and then furiously stroked over my clit, the sensation like adding accelerant directly onto a fire. “Until one day when I put a baby inside you.”

“Dare!”I cried out, the edge of my release clawing for me like a tornado through my core, and I didn’t want it.No,I did want it, but not like this.

I grabbed his wrist and pulled myself back, panting as I stood a just-unreachable distance from the god on his knees.

“Fuck, Athena.” His chest heaved. “Fuck.”

My eyes lowered, and I wondered how it was possible that he was even bigger. Thicker and longer. The whole length pulsing drops of precum to his tip.

His ragged groan snapped my attention back to his mouth, which was currently filled with his fingers that had been stuffed inside me.

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